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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Glasgow or Turin?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Glasgow for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Glasgow’s own page.

Choose Turin for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Glasgow 14, Turin 12: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Turin 81: Turin leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Turin 78: Turin leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow 66, Turin 50: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Turin 80: Turin leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Turin 84: Turin leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Turin 57: Glasgow leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Turin 68: Turin leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow 64, Turin 58: Glasgow leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Turin 58: Turin leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Turin 65: Glasgow leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Turin 40: Turin leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Turin.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Glasgow
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Glasgow in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Glasgow has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Glasgow's sunshine is measured 90 km from the centre, at Eskdalemuir.

Turin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowTurin
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m239 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowTurin
City population626,410841,600
People per km²1906,474
Museums within 10 km2972
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.